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School teaches pupils how to avoid Twitter defamation

Pupils at a private school in Taunton, Somerset, are being taught how to avoid defaming others on social networks including Facebook and Twitter.

"We've been trying to make them accountable – if you wouldn't say something to a person's face, if you wouldn't say it in front of me or your parents, then you don't say it," Carol Manley, a senior teacher at Taunton School, told the Guardian.

"Students need to know that whatever they say may just come back to bite them."